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Briseis stared at her hand which was already cold and trembling. She was already third in line. Until now, she does not know what to say. She can't think of any excuse to save herself.

And now she is in the second line. The guard is already looking at the bag of her classmate who is in front of her.

And now her classmate was already done, it is her turn now

Briseis slowly advanced.

The guard's stared at her and that look makes Briseis wanna run away.

"Your bag, please," the guard said to Briseis but Briseis held it tightly and she did not hand it to the guard.

The guard was bored so he reached for Briseis' bag to take it from the girl but Briseis clung tightly to it so the guard did not succeed in getting it.

"Your bag, please. Give it to me," the guard said to the girl and tried to take it from the girl but the girl was stubborn in her decision.

She tightened her grip on her bag even more.

The two of them quarreled so their teacher was already upset.

"Briseis," the teacher called to her. "Is there a problem? Why don't you give the guard your bag? Don't tell me you're hiding something there that shouldn't be."

Briseis was even more nervous at what her teacher said while her friends were also puzzled at her action.

The guard violently snatched the bag from Briseis.

Briseis almost stumbled when his bag was snatched.

Her male friends stood up because the guard did that.

"Wait," said Bret. "It's wrong for you to pull Briseis' bag like that,"

The guard glared at Briseis and looked at Bret.

"Why doesn't this friend of yours have her bag checked?" the guard's voice was full of suspicion. "Maybe she's a thief. Maybe she stole the book!"

"Don't accuse us!" Seven responded sharply to the conversation. "You have no evidence! You have no right to reprimand our friend for being a thief!"

"Then why doesn't she give me her bag ?!" disgusted as well as the guard asked. The guard of their school was rude and is already mad. The guard feels like he is the owner of the school and he is the rule in this place that is why he acts like a boss.

Bret and Seven can't answer because even they were wondering why Briseis didn't want to give her bag.

"Oh you can't answer?" said the guard. "That just means your friend is a thief!"

Briseis's eyes filled with fear and she looked at her classmates who were staring at them. What else is she going to say here? How she would save themselves from embarrassment.

"You better watch your mouth!" Bret insisted. "That is slander under false accusations!"

"Don't scold me kid!" the guard said to him, even more, annoyed by what the student had told him.

"Learn to respect your elders!"

"Okay guys," said their teacher. "Calm down. You don't have to fight. Mister go ahead and open that bag to finish this."

Shawna calms down Seven and Bret.

The guard opened Briseis' bag. He groped it for a few seconds and still not satisfied, he turned the bag over and dropped Briseis's belongings on the floor. He shook the bag as if he wanted to drop the bag's spirits too. He was disappointed that he found nothing.

The guard was annoyed so he did that with the girl student's bag. He is even more annoyed that he found nothing but ballpen and papers.

The guard threw Briseis' bag on the floor when he finished digging it.

Then he looked sharply at Briseis and her friends. Those sharp looks mean their fight isn't over yet and giving them a warning that he will not stop suspecting until he found something.

"We're just really going to catch that thief who can't keep his hand from itching!" the guard threatens the students.

After he threw sharp glances he immediately goes out of the classroom.

Their teacher rested deeply because of the attitude of that guard and she also couldn't help but be annoyed by what was the guard have done to her students

Briseis's eyes widened as she knelt on the floor to unpack his bag.

She opened almost all the pockets even though the book won't fit in it.

She was very surprised because the book was not there.

'She can't be wrong' she whispered in her mind because she clearly remembers that she saw the book in her bag last night but whatever he turned upside down in the bag there was no book there.

Briseis no longer knew which one was true. She feels like she is hallucinating. She thought it might be true because she gave the book to Shawna and she even said that she hid the book in his grandmother's old trunk.

Briseis breathed a sigh of relief because the book was not with her. He thought earlier that they were at an end.

Bret approached Briseis to help him put her belongings inside her bag.

"You alright?" Bret asked her.

Briseis nodded and was not on her mind. Her mind is a mess.

Their teacher also helps Briseis packed her things.

"It is okay," the teacher said to her. "Don't think about it too much. I will talk to the guard later. He should not threaten my students like that."

But Briseis does not care. All she cares about is the book. She keeps on thinking about the book.

Marissa and Shawna approach Briseis. They saw how absent-minded the girl is.

"Did she just get trauma?" Shawna asked and can't believe it.

Marissa and Seven observe Briseis and they know something is off.

"Are you sure you are okay, Briseis?" Bret asked her again for he is worried about her.

Briseis came back to her sane.

"O – of course!" she said. "I am okay! Don't worry about me. Please excuse me for a while. I have to go to the bathroom."

Briseis left the room.